קֶ֫שֶׁב
attentiveness
Full lexicon entry — Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
Where this word appears
Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Noun
- A naming word — a person, place, thing, or idea.
Noun type
- Common
- A common noun — a general class of person, place, or thing (“king,” “city,” “water”), not a specific name.
State
- Absolute
- The independent form of a noun, not bound to a following word.
Gender
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
Every verse where H7182 appears — 3 distinct verses across 3 books. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Hebrew form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Hebrew Bible; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences are not indexed here.
1 Kings 1 verse
2 Kings 1 verse
Isaiah 1 verse
About this entry
At a glance — auto-summarized from this page’s data, not written by a person. Every figure links to its source below. This summary describes the numbers; it doesn’t interpret them.
The Hebrew noun קשב centers on the idea of “attentiveness.” It occurs a mere 3 verses across Scripture. The word gravitates to 1 Kings (33%), then 2 Kings and Isaiah. Its earliest occurrence is 1 Kings 18:29. It shares a root with קשב and קשב. Dig into 3-verse concordance and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H7182 catalogs a Hebrew word from the Hebrew Old Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Hebrew Old Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 3
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 3 distinct verses.
- 3 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 3 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #3,696
- by frequency
- Top 5000 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 3,696 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 3 occurrences in the concordance →
By section of the Old Testament
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Each share is this word’s portion of its verses in that division of the Hebrew canon. Each figure is a share of the word’s 3 distinct verses.
- Prophets (Nevi'im) 3 verses · 100%
How translations render this word
Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).
- King James Version: Any that regarded 1×, Diligently 1×, Hearing 1×
- American Standard Version: Any that regarded 1×, Diligently 1×, Hearing 1×
- Berean Standard Bible: Alert 1×, One paid attention 1×, Response 1×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Attention 3×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H7182 across 4 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H7182 across 4 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H7182 across 3 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Not rendered by a distinct English word in 1 further occurrence.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H7182 across 4 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 1 rendering that appears only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Senses in BDB
The 1 sense BDB distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency or importance). The full entry — with sub-senses — is in the Lexicon Entry tab.
- attentiveness, attention
Word origin
Derived from קשב (qâshab) (H7181) — to hear.
Jastrow Dictionary
A second Hebrew/Aramaic lexicon for comparison, covering Aramaic and post-biblical (Talmudic, Targumic, Midrashic) usage that the biblical-Hebrew BDB does not. Matched by lemma rather than by Strong’s number, so a lemma may carry more than one Jastrow headword (shown separately below), and the entries cover usage well beyond the Bible.
קָשַב
- (b. h.) to be hard, stiff.
- [to prick up the ear,] to listen. Cant. R. to VIII, 13 אני … מַקְשִׁיבִים וכ׳ I and my household will listen to thy voice (of prayer). Sabb. 63ᵃ הקב"ה מַקְשִׁיב להם the Lord listens to them. Ib. שני … המקשיבים זה לזה וכ׳ two students who patiently listen to each other in discussions of the halakhah; a. e.
קְשַׁב
- , to be attentive, watchful. Gitt. 56ᵃ דאינהו קַשְׁבֵי דחייא וכ׳ Ar. (ed. ידעי) read: דאינהו ק׳ וידעי דחייא וכ׳ for they are watchful (distrustful), and they know that a live body is lighter &c.
A Dictionary of the Targumim, the Talmud Babli and Yerushalmi, and the Midrashic Literature (Marcus Jastrow; London, Luzac, 1903) — Public Domain. Digitized via Sefaria. Digitized via Sefaria. Full attribution on Sources.
Forms in the corpus
The 3 distinct written forms H7182 takes in the Hebrew Bible, most frequent first — each parse links to that state’s occurrences in the concordance. Hebrew forms include their vowel points and cantillation, so a single lemma takes many written forms.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| קָֽשֶׁב | Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | 1 Kings 18:29 | 2 |
| קֶ֖שֶׁב | Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | Isaiah 21:7 | 1 |
| קָ֑שֶׁב | Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | 2 Kings 4:31 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other BDB entries built from the same root as H7182, grouped by Strong’s listed origin. These share a root / origin per the lexicon — not necessarily a shared meaning. Each links to that word’s own entry.
Derives from
Shares the same root
Compare all same-root words → They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 3 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 3 Hebrew verses it occurs in. You can read those verses in Greek by switching the Old Testament edition to the Septuagint.
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